July 17, 2013

Homemade healthy cheesy pizza

Cheesy, cheesy goodness!!! Mhhhh I love pizza, it’s always
been one of my go to food treats. When we were growing up we never ever got
takeaways, so I'm never bothered with Chinese takeaway or McDonalds etc. but when
my mother wanted a night off from cooking we got oven pizza. Thus a lifelong
affair with deliciously cheesy pizza was born.

Two weeks ago best friend and I got pizzas from
Dominoes – they had a special on to get two pizzas for the price of one so we
each got a medium pizza. I made all the “good” choices you can when it comes to
pizza; I picked the thin crust, mozzarella cheese and veggie only toppings. That
pizza still came to a whopping 30 Weight Watchers points (basically, completely
over the recommended nutritional intake for a whole day!). Anyone who has had
the thin crust pizza will that there’s a lot less eating on a thin crust
compared to a pan pizza. I felt cheated! I could have so many other yummy
things with those points, like chocolate…...

So takeaway pizzas are out and homemade low point pizzas are
in instead. Now technically speaking this isn’t really pizza since there isn’t
a dough base. It’s pizza toppings on a sandwich wrap baked in the oven until
the wrap is crispy. A super super thin crust pizza if you will…..but
importantly it looks like pizza, tastes
like pizza and I could eat 4 of these for the same points as the takeaway
pizza!

What to do:

Preheat the oven to 450°F

Take a can of crushed tomatoes, drain and then
add to a saucepan with sautéed onion and garlic, add fresh basil and oregano
and cook for 5-10 minutes until the tomatoes are s1oft and the water has all
evaporated off leaving a thicker sauce – voila homemade rustic pizza sauce

Grab a sandwich wrap, mine were from Trader Joe’s
and are 4 pts each, load it with pizza sauce, ¼ cup of shredded mozzarella cheese
2 pts and then whatever toppings you want – I used sweet corn and yellow pepper
but you can add anything at all.

Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes and then
enjoy!

Next time I’m going to a BBQ faux
chicken one because BBQ sauce is my favourite sauce ever, well next to pesto…..exactly
I should do a pesto and goats cheese one next…….yum!